Claudia Claridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 5642445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Claridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Claridge |
| SIGNATURE | CLARIDGE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4785-3222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The reader in the text across time and genres
The development of uses of reader (third-person and vocative) are investigated in the Corpus of Late Modern English Text (1710-1920) with regard to frequencies and functions. Overall, reader declines, indicating a shift away from nominal and more formal style. Third-person uses are more common than vocatives, which cluster especially in the early nineteenth century and in emotive, personalized texts. A functional analysis is carried out on treati…
Towards first-order pragmatics
That's the understatement of the century
A Little Something Goes a Long Way
Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, have remained by and large a neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among downtoners, the adverb little or a little stands out as the most frequent item. It is multifunctional and serves as a diminishing and minimizing intensifier and also in non-degree uses as a quantifier, frequentative, and du…
Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English
This introductory paper sets the scene for the present double special issue on degree phenomena. Besides introducing the individual contributions, it positions degree in the overlapping fields of intensity, focus and emphasis. It outlines the wide-ranging means of expressing degree, their possible categorizations, as well as the manyfold uses of intensification with respect to involvement, politeness, evaluation, emotive expression and persuasion…
Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing
An aspect distinguishing historical from other narration is the historiographers’ engagement with sources and other scholars, which shows as intertextuality in the text. A prominent intertextual device is the (foot)note, which originates around 1700 ( Grafton 1997 : 191) and whose institutionalised presence separates older, literary historiography from the more modern scholarly type and with regard to frequency of use also history from other huma…
Now in the historical courtroom
The investigation of the pragmatic marker now in trial proceedings from 1560 to 1800 shows a genre-specific usage profile with regard to its uses and functions. Courtroom “professionals” (lawyers, judges and other officials) use now significantly more frequently than lay speakers (witnesses, victims and defendants). The former use it to segment and highlight stages in the argumentation, as well as to control and to disalign with others’ interacti…
Voices in Medieval History Writing
This article investigates speech and writing presentation in medieval historiography, based on (excerpts from) six texts from the Old and Middle English periods, and focusing on the functional aspect. It shows that in order to capture pecularities of the register/genre, approaches from the fields of evidentiality, evaluation/appraisal, and literary as well as academic stylistics need to be combined. Three functional groups of quoting are identifi…
The evolution of three pragmatic markers
The article traces the development of three pragmatic markers with a hedging function, as it were , so to speak and if you like , back to their origins in the fourteenth century, the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century, respectively. They all probably started out as full clauses, as adverbial clauses ( as it were , if you like ) or as complement clause ( so to speak ), but underwent different degrees of restructuring and shor…
Hyperbole in English
Non-standard language in earlier English
The concept of ‘non-standard’ remains somewhat fuzzy during the Early Modern English period. Language change and especially ongoing standardization can make it difficult to pin down an individual feature at any given time as clearly non-standard. Contemporary views of ‘good’ language, which we also discuss here, need to be taken into account and may lead to a more socially restricted idea of standard and thus a wider area of non-standard. Regiona…
Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation
Questions in Early Modern English pamphlets
The paper explores the functions and distribution of questions in the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts , a 1.1 million-word corpus of pamphlets written between 1640 and 1740. Pamphlets are a highly interactive medium with a mostly persuasive function. Thus it is not surprising that pamphlet authors exhibit a critical and inquisitive attitude, which shows itself also in the explicit posing of questions. The questions can be sorted ac…
Style evolution in the English sermon
Pamphlets and Early Newspapers
L'analyse de la collection Lampeter de pamphlets des 17 e et 18 e siecles permet a l'A. de mettre en evidence les strategies interpersonnelles (formules de politesse, usage des pronoms de la premiere et de la seconde personne) utilisees par la presse pour exprimer des convictions politiques ou religieuses
Questions in Early Modern English pamphlets
The paper explores the functions and distribution of questions in the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts , a 1.1 million-word corpus of pamphlets written between 1640 and 1740. Pamphlets are a highly interactive medium with a mostly persuasive function. Thus it is not surprising that pamphlet authors exhibit a critical and inquisitive attitude, which shows itself also in the explicit posing of questions. The questions can be sorted ac…
The evolution of three pragmatic markers
The article traces the development of three pragmatic markers with a hedging function, as it were , so to speak and if you like , back to their origins in the fourteenth century, the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century, respectively. They all probably started out as full clauses, as adverbial clauses ( as it were , if you like ) or as complement clause ( so to speak ), but underwent different degrees of restructuring and shor…
Pamphlets and Early Newspapers
L'analyse de la collection Lampeter de pamphlets des 17 e et 18 e siecles permet a l'A. de mettre en evidence les strategies interpersonnelles (formules de politesse, usage des pronoms de la premiere et de la seconde personne) utilisees par la presse pour exprimer des convictions politiques ou religieuses
Style evolution in the English sermon
Questions in Early Modern English pamphlets
The paper explores the functions and distribution of questions in the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts , a 1.1 million-word corpus of pamphlets written between 1640 and 1740. Pamphlets are a highly interactive medium with a mostly persuasive function. Thus it is not surprising that pamphlet authors exhibit a critical and inquisitive attitude, which shows itself also in the explicit posing of questions. The questions can be sorted ac…
Non-standard language in earlier English
The concept of ‘non-standard’ remains somewhat fuzzy during the Early Modern English period. Language change and especially ongoing standardization can make it difficult to pin down an individual feature at any given time as clearly non-standard. Contemporary views of ‘good’ language, which we also discuss here, need to be taken into account and may lead to a more socially restricted idea of standard and thus a wider area of non-standard. Regiona…
Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation
Hyperbole in English
The evolution of three pragmatic markers
The article traces the development of three pragmatic markers with a hedging function, as it were , so to speak and if you like , back to their origins in the fourteenth century, the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century, respectively. They all probably started out as full clauses, as adverbial clauses ( as it were , if you like ) or as complement clause ( so to speak ), but underwent different degrees of restructuring and shor…
Voices in Medieval History Writing
This article investigates speech and writing presentation in medieval historiography, based on (excerpts from) six texts from the Old and Middle English periods, and focusing on the functional aspect. It shows that in order to capture pecularities of the register/genre, approaches from the fields of evidentiality, evaluation/appraisal, and literary as well as academic stylistics need to be combined. Three functional groups of quoting are identifi…
Now in the historical courtroom
The investigation of the pragmatic marker now in trial proceedings from 1560 to 1800 shows a genre-specific usage profile with regard to its uses and functions. Courtroom “professionals” (lawyers, judges and other officials) use now significantly more frequently than lay speakers (witnesses, victims and defendants). The former use it to segment and highlight stages in the argumentation, as well as to control and to disalign with others’ interacti…
Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing
An aspect distinguishing historical from other narration is the historiographers’ engagement with sources and other scholars, which shows as intertextuality in the text. A prominent intertextual device is the (foot)note, which originates around 1700 ( Grafton 1997 : 191) and whose institutionalised presence separates older, literary historiography from the more modern scholarly type and with regard to frequency of use also history from other huma…
A Little Something Goes a Long Way
Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, have remained by and large a neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among downtoners, the adverb little or a little stands out as the most frequent item. It is multifunctional and serves as a diminishing and minimizing intensifier and also in non-degree uses as a quantifier, frequentative, and du…
Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English
This introductory paper sets the scene for the present double special issue on degree phenomena. Besides introducing the individual contributions, it positions degree in the overlapping fields of intensity, focus and emphasis. It outlines the wide-ranging means of expressing degree, their possible categorizations, as well as the manyfold uses of intensification with respect to involvement, politeness, evaluation, emotive expression and persuasion…
That's the understatement of the century
The reader in the text across time and genres
The development of uses of reader (third-person and vocative) are investigated in the Corpus of Late Modern English Text (1710-1920) with regard to frequencies and functions. Overall, reader declines, indicating a shift away from nominal and more formal style. Third-person uses are more common than vocatives, which cluster especially in the early nineteenth century and in emotive, personalized texts. A functional analysis is carried out on treati…
Towards first-order pragmatics
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